Let us cite here four other remedies that are less frequently used:
Calcarea carbonica (psora, sciatica after working in water). In
the antecedents we find gonorrhoea, vaccination or serological injections.

(1) Two ground remedies are useful: Thuja and Natrum Sulphuricum.
The first one is more important than the second one. The nosode
Medorrhinum will give good result..

(2) Psoric ground of arthritis is very favourable for sciatica:
Sulphur and Psorinum are the ground remedies, the first one is more
important than the second. If there is doubt that tuberculosis is
closely connected with psora, Marmoreck and T.R. should be used
in oxygenoids and T.R. in hydrogenoids. These will be the remedies.

(3) For syphilitic ground Luesinum is to be used.

(4) The cancer ground, with its deep intoxication, its eliminations
or its fixations along a nerve is also a cause of sciatica. The
ground remedies such as Lycopodium, Arsenicum etc. should be carefully
individualized because of the morbid transfer. The
most recommendable nosode is heterogeneous or autogenous sanguine
therapy (isopathy).

Finally we should recommend not to omit in the interrogatory an
enquiry on possible traumatism.

Ground remedies. We are first
of all taking up the study of some remedies that we consider particularly
as remedies of the ground of sciatica but, if they cover well the
cause, may also be used as symptomatic remedies. When they are used
as ground remedies, they are to be prescribed in high dilutions
(200, M). The most important are Sulphur and Thuja.

Medorrhinum (200, M)--- Agg. of all symptoms while
thinking about them. Amel. on sea side, at night.
Changing character, impatient, anxious. Time passes very slowly.
Fear of becoming mad. Sensation of heat; burning pains in the brain;
sweating palms. Conscious of her uterus (Dr. Chiron); bad smell
of the skin, of secretions.

Luesinum (200, M)--- Agg. at night, on sea side. Amel.
on mountains. Excessive nervousness, anxious for his health, diminution
of memory. Continually washes his hands, desire for alcohol. Pains
increase and decrease gradually. Bone pains. Headache. Deep longitudinal
crack on the tongue (Dr, Chiron) Restlessness of the limbs, which
he must move continually. In sciatica movement and walking ameliorate.

Considered as ground remedies, they should be used in high dilutions
(200, M) and should be repeated at long intervals (three weeks or
one month).

Symptomatic remedies. In sciatica
if one wants to be successful one must look for "Simile" or "Similimum".
The result will be as favorable as the medicines are individualized.
Two remedies may be repeated alternately, at one interval of two
to three hours, when more than one remedies are chosen. In chronic
cases, 6 or 30 once or twice. When there is the possibility of finding
a single remedy it is then the triumph of unicism and in that case
the medicine may be used according to the Kentian fashion, in high
dilution and waiting for the results.

We have classified the remedies in three groups: At first three
most important remedies, then remedies in alphabetical order, which
are frequently used, and finally the exceptionally or rarely indicated
remedies.

Bryonia (6, 30)— Agg. by movement, While standing, by superficial
contract. Amel. by rest, lying on the affected side, by strong pressure.
Drawing pains, lancinating as if from a "sore below the skin", of
which the seat is in the lumbar region and on hips. General agg.
by the heat, anger. Dryness of the mucous membranes with thirst
for the large quantities of water at long intervals. Constipation.

Gnaphallium (6, 30)--- Agg. by walking; by movement;
however feels the necessity of movement and change of position;
while lying down. Amel. while sitting, bending the legs. Intense
pains, continued pains alternating with numbness. Cramps of the
calves and hips. Foetid diarrhoea, with colic, agg. in the morning.

Aconite (6, 30)— Agg. at night, by movement, by heat of the
room. Amel. by rest and while sitting. Acute sciatica. Sudden attack
after being exposed to dry cold. Extreme physical and mental agitation.
Intolerance of heat. Fear of death. Hypersensitiveness to contact.
Pain with numbness.

Arnica (6, 30)— Agg. in the evening, at night, by movement.
(Should change position), by coldness. Amel. while lying down. Burning,
tearing pains. Traumatic sensation, sensation of fracture, numbness.
Traumatic sciatica. Creates a scene when the doctor arrives, does
not require his service.

Arsenicum album (6, 30, 200)— Agg. from midnight to 2 A.M.
by cold and cold application, by violent
movement. Amel. by heat and hot applications. Burning and tearing
pains forcing the patient to constantly change position. Prefers
to lie down but constantly moves. Restlessness, weakness. Fear of
death. Refuses to take medicines because he is hopeless of cure.

Belladonna (6, 30)--- Agg. at night, after midnight.
By touch, by the least contact, by sound and light, by gush of wind.
Amel. while standing, hanging the affected limb; by half sitting
position, by heat. Pains appearing and disappearing suddenly. Periodical
attack, beginning in the afternoon and ending at midnight. Alternate
restlessness and depression. Hyperesthesia of senses. Tendency to
spasms. Dilatation of pupils.

Bufo (6, 30)--- Agg. by heat, in a hot room, during
sleep. Amel. by haemorrhage, by putting the feet in hot water. Mental
weakness, idiocy in depressed persons, as a result of sexual abuse
or of onanism. Sudden anger bites. Epilepsy.

Chamomilla (6, 30)--- Agg. at night, in bed, by the least
movement, by rest. Amel. when carried, being in a vehicle. Slight
amel. by cold. Pain in numbness. Intolerance of pains, with great
restlessness, cries, tendency to become angry. Need for movement
when suffering. General aggravation by anger and fear. General amel.
by humid heat.

Cocculus (6, 30)--- Agg. by contact, by noise, in open
air, afternoon. Amel. by rest. Sciatica with weakness and trembling.
General aggravation by long privation of sleep, riding.

Colocynthis (6, 30, 200, M)---Right sided. Agg. in the evening,
at night, by movement, by the stretching of limbs. Keeps the limbs
stretched; by contact, by cold. Amel. by rest, by hot application.
Very important remedy. Sciatica with intolerable pains followed
by numbness and paresis. General agar. By anger.

Dioscorea (6, 30)---Right sided. Agg. when getting up, while
walking, by movement. Amel. by rest, by slow extension (contrary
to Colocynthis). Cramping pain along the nerve, specially in the
hip. Amel. of all symptoms by extension.

Ferrum metallicum (6, 30) Agg. by rest, at night, being
seated. By cold, by air current. Amel. by moderate movement, by
heat. Tearing pain. Pale and flushed individual, has gushes of heat,
localized on the face. Anaemia, chlorosis.

Gelsemium (6)--- Agg. by rest, at the beginning of
movement, at night. Chronic sciatica. Stubborn cases remedy of trembling.

Hypericum (6)--- Agg. by cold, humidity, mist, confined air,
by touch. Amel. not marked. Hypersensitiveness of nerves, sensation
of laceration, drawing pains. Burning pains with numbness. Traumatic
sciatica. A remedy of traumatism of nerves. Coccygodynia. Sometimes
sensation as if the limbs are detached from the body.

Iris versicolor (6)--- Left sided. Agg. at night, by lying
on the painful side, by cold, by touch. Amel. by walking, heat,
by bending forward. Lumbar neuralgia. Pain in the back, feels the
need of a support. Weakness of the lumbar muscles. Sometimes numbness
of the limbs. General conditions depressed. General agg. by fatigue,
by sexual acts.

Kali iodatum (6, 30) ---Right sided (non-exclusive). Agg.
at night, by lying on the painful side. Amel. by movement, by walking,
in open air.

Syphilitic ground. Mercurial sciaticas. Pain in the posterior part
of the hip with contractions and spasms of the muscles. General
characteristics: Pains that force the patient to get up at night
to move in cold air.

Kalmia (6)--- Right sided (non-exclusive), Agg. by bending
double, by movement, by cold. General amelioration by eating. Pain
from above downwards, lightning like pains. Fulgurating pains. Sensations
of weakness and coldness of the lower limbs with numbness.